Indian Defence Update Blog

Arunachal Pradesh is Indian territory and the opinion of others on the issue is not a concern for India, defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday, days after China objected to her visit to...

HIGHLIGHTS The defence budgets have very little money for new projects with the bulk of the capital being used for instalments of deals inked earlier. Forces say the DRDO-defence PSU lobby “over-promises and then...

Eric Trappier, chairman of the €3.6 billion Dassault Aviation, was recently in India to lay the foundation stone of Dassault Reliance Aerospace Limited (DRAL’s) manufacturing facility at Mihan in Nagpur. With production from DRAL...

As the first shipment of wheat arrived in Nimroz via Iran’s Chabahar Port on Saturday, the Afghan officials said their country was no longer dependent on Pakistan’s Karachi port. The shipment arrived in Nimroz...

On November 9, Indian Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba visited Cherbourg and was given a detailed presentation on France’s new nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN), the Barracuda class. The first of these six French SSNs...

Tejas is a 4+ generation, supersonic, highly maneuverable, multi-role, smallest and lightest in its class contemporary combat aircraft designed for the Indian Air Force designed and developed by DRDO. It is considered ‘game changer’...

America appears ready to provide a significant boost to India’s future aircraft carrier . According to Indian media reports, the United States and India have entered the final stages of a negotiation for Washington to equip Delhi’s future...

Reports in Russia sparked a controversy, but it was actually a British team that had to check compatibility with its submarine rescue system Days after a massive controversy in Russia, over reports that India...

The Indian Army has drawn up a requirement for approximately 1,770 new generation “smart” battle tanks to replace the ageing fleet of Soviet-origin T-72 tanks that have been in service for over 30 years....